Infrastructure

Manfredi Catella, CEO and chairman of COIMA, Italy’s biggest private real estate manager, tells Impact Investor how he is changing the face of Milan with a “genuine sense of caring”.

FREO Group has laid the groundwork for a ‘zero energy’ office building. Its new ESG group officer and sustainable real estate manager Miriam Esders tells Impact Investor why this innovative concept is the future.
In many ways, Miriam Esders has the perfect background for her new role as ESG group officer & sustainable real estate […]

In her efforts to green the European logistics sector, GLP’s Natali Cooper describes the struggle to get granular data, and the growing awareness of climate risk..

Financial institutions will achieve greater impact if they focus on so-called place-based impact investing in regional regeneration, instead of lending to certain sectors.

UNOPS, the United Nations Office for Project Services, has put out an open call for investors and partners to co-design and back large-scale sustainable infrastructure projects in “emerging and frontier markets”.

Some $2.5trn of the UN development goals has yet to be invested and “75% of that gap is made up of critical infrastructure projects in the developing world,” says Philipp Mueller, chief executive officer of BlueOrchard Finance.

Real estate is a crucial frontier in fighting climate change. Meka Brunel, chair of the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), is demonstrating just how significant the sector’s impact can be.

This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic shifted priorities. This week: Richard Stonehouse, Head of Residential Investment at Avison Young.

Impact investing in our cities can play a key role in tackling the two greatest challenges of our time: climate change and social inequality.

‘DJ’, the charismatic Senior Fund Manager of CBRE GI’s Affordable Housing Fund, tells us “the investment case for affordable housing has never been stronger.” European investors are being attracted by the security of income.